Combined corset and stocking-suspender.



No. 829,962. PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906! J. GUTMANN.

COMBINED CORSET AND STOCKING SUSPENDER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 3, 1904.

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COMBINED CORSET AND STOCKlNG-SUSPENDEFL Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application filed August 3,1904. Serial No. 219,377.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULrUs GUTMANN, a subject of the King of Wiirtemberg, residing at 18 Boblingerstrasse, Stuttgart, in the Kingdom of IViirtemberg and Empire of Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Combined Corset and Stocking-Suspender, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to combined corsets and stocking-suspenders.

In the improved device the stocking-suspenders are attached not as heretofore to the lower edge of the corset fabric, but to the lower end of the steel busks forming part of the fastening device, with the object of enabling the direct line to extend from the breast to the abdomen. It has hitherto been customary to fix the stocking-suspenders to the lower edge of the corset fabric, so that, as the suspenders must be worn tight, the fabric underneath the lower ends of busks is pulled back, thus causing these ends to appear as projecting parts. This is inevitable, because the abdomen reaches farther forward than the upper end of the stocking. In the improved device, however, it is not the lower end of the fabric, but the lower end of the busks, which is pulled back by the stockingsuspenders.

In the accompanying drawings I have represented a constructional form of my invention.

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the combined corset and suspenders. Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the lower end of a bush with the stocking-suspender attached thereto; Figs. 3 and 4 show two modes of covering the busks for fastening the stockingsuspenders. Fig. 5. shows a mode of connecting the suspenders to the busks. Fig. 6 shows a mode of covering the lower edge of the bush to prevent wear by rubbing, the stocking-suspender extending between the two layers of the corset fabric. Fig. 7 shows a modified mode of covering the lower edge of the bush, the suspender passing under the corset fabric below the bush. Fig. 8 shows a further modification of the mode of covering the lower busk edge, the suspender passing over the corset fabric below the busk.

At the front edges of the corset a are the usual busks b, sewed into the fabric. The busks I) are sewed into a fabric 0, either completely or only at their lower part, the said fabric extending downward beyond the bush and carrying by its part d, which extends freely downward, the elastic stocking-suspenders e. The intermediate parts (1 may protrude from the fabric 0, Fig. 2; but the connection between the parts (1 andthe stocking-suspenders 6 may also be effected between the two layers of fabric of the corset, Figs. 1 and 5.

In the beforedescribed constructional form the stocking-suspenders extend from the lower edge of the corset to the busk b between the two layers of fabric of the corset, Fig. 6; but they may also be conducted under the corset fabric, Fig. 7, or over the same, Fig. 8, in which case they pass from the busks directly through an aperture 0/ in the corset fabric to the outside, and not, as hereinbefore set forth, at the lower edge f of the corset fabric.

It is expedient to provide on the fabric 0, which takes up the bush 1) and to which the stocking-suspenders e are attached, a small plate of metal 9 or a small piece of leather or other strong material, extending over the lower edge of the said busk, Figs. 6, 7, 8, the said plate or piece the wear of the fabric 0 through being rubbed by the busk I).

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a device of the character described, the combination, with the two layers of the corset fabric and a busk of a layer of fabric inclosing and secured to said bush and extending below the latter and a stocking-susender permanently attached directly to the ower end of said layer of fabric inclosing the bush substantially as herein set forth.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination, with the two layers of the corset fabric and a busk, of a layer of fabric inclosing and secured to said bush and extending below the latter, and a stocking-suspender permanently connected, in the space between the said two layers of fabric, with the lower end of the said layer of fabric inclosing the busk, substantially as herein set forth.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination, with the two layers of the corset fabric and a bush, of a layer of fabric inclosing and secured to said busk and extending below the latter, and a stocking-suspender provided with intermediate parts permanently connected, in the space between the said two layers of corset fabric, with the lower end of the said layer of fabric inclosing the bush, substantially as herein set forth.

being designed to obviate 4. In a device of the character described, the combination, with the two layers of the corset fabric and a busk, of a layer of fabric inclosing and secured to said busk and extending below the latter, and a stocking suspender permanently connected with the lower end of the said layer of fabric inclosing. V

the busk and passing through an aperture in one of the layers of the corset fabric underneath the lower busk end, substantially as herein set forth.

5. In a device of the character described, the combination, with the two layers of the corset fabric and a busk, of a layer of fabric inclosing and secured to said busk and eX- tending below the latter, and a stocking-sus pender provided with an intermediate part permanently connected with the lower end of the said layer of fabric inclosing the busk and passing through an aperture in one of the layers of the corset fabric underneath the lower busk end, substantially as herein set forth.

6. In a device of the character described,

the combination, with the two layers of the the combination with the two layers of the corset and a busk, of a layer of fabric inclosing and secured to the latter, a stocking-suspender permanently attached directly to the lower end of the said layer of fabric inclosing the busk, and a plate extendin over the lower end of this busk, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JULIUS GUTMANN.

Witnesses ERNST ENTLEMAN, N. MAIER. 

